Some of the stations in Antarctica use heat pumps. They have been proven to work effectively at -53°C (-64°F) and do so reliably.
Are they more efficient at more reasonable temperatures? Yes. But they still work even when it’s very cold outside.
How well a heat pump works in cold temperatures obviously depends what temperatures it was designed to operate at. Don’t waste your money on a model that is designed to operate in a different climate. In fact a lot of heat pumps aren’t even capable of heating at all - they can only output cold air (which they can do even if it’s stinking hot outside by the way).
Are you intimately familiar with the inner workings of your heatpump? Nearly all heatpumps in a cold climate have backup heat built in and it would automatically switch to backup when it gets too cold outside. -30C is well into the too cold category for it to function as a heatpump alone
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Some of the stations in Antarctica use heat pumps. They have been proven to work effectively at -53°C (-64°F) and do so reliably.
Are they more efficient at more reasonable temperatures? Yes. But they still work even when it’s very cold outside.
How well a heat pump works in cold temperatures obviously depends what temperatures it was designed to operate at. Don’t waste your money on a model that is designed to operate in a different climate. In fact a lot of heat pumps aren’t even capable of heating at all - they can only output cold air (which they can do even if it’s stinking hot outside by the way).
It can go down to -30C (-22f) sometimes or even below that
Are you intimately familiar with the inner workings of your heatpump? Nearly all heatpumps in a cold climate have backup heat built in and it would automatically switch to backup when it gets too cold outside. -30C is well into the too cold category for it to function as a heatpump alone
Which makes the argument that heat pumps don’t work in the cold completely wrong from a user perspective.